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Business After Hours to Honor Nation's 2010 Time Magazine Auto Dealer of the Year award recipient, Scott Wood
24-May-10 09:23
On June 10th from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, a Business After Hours event will be held in honor of Nation’s 2010 Time Magazine Auto Dealer of the Year award recipient, Scott Wood. Mr. Wood is dealer and general manager of Stanley Wood Chevrolet and Scott Wood Chrysler Dodge Jeep. The gathering will be in the service reception area of the dealership located at 290 South Central Avenue in downtown Batesville. from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
At the event there will be clinics featuring proper child seat installation, vacation preparation, warning light identification, the service department process plus GM OnStar and Chrysler U-Connect demonstrations. John 3:16 Ministries is catering with picnic style fare.
The public is invited to come celebrate the American Auto Dealership as a small town, community minded organization during Business After Hours.
Documentary Film Making Workshop for Teens
05-May-10 14:04
T Tauri Workshop Set for Historic Landers
Student Group Will Make Main Street Documentary
Young filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers will have the opportunity to “make history” this summer.
Among the five workshops offered in the 6th annual T Tauri Movie Camp, July 19 through 31, is Community Documentary. Students who participate in that workshop will be making a documentary film about Batesville’s historic downtown business district. The workshop will be held July 19-23 at the restored Landers Theater Building, now known as Fellowship at the Landers, 332 E. Main Street. Old Independence Regional Museum will screen the completed film for visitors interested in touring the historic district. All completed film projects will premiere at the T Tauri Film Festival Finale Screening on Saturday evening, July 31, in Independence Hall on the campus of UACCB.
Workshop faculty members are experienced filmmaker/educators with previous Movie Camp experience. Full workshop descriptions, faculty biographies, registration forms, and parental risk and consent forms are available at www.ttauri.org. Tuition for Community Documentary is $100, which includes all equipment and supplies. Workshop participants receive an official T Tauri Film Festival t-shirt, admission to the Finale Screening, and a DVD of the work produced in their workshop. Students provide their own brown bag lunches and beverages. Cancellations received on or before June 20, 2010, will qualify for a full refund, minus a $10 cancellation fee. Refunds cannot be issued for cancellations received after June 20, 2010.
The T Tauri Movie Camp is non-residential. Comfort Suites, the official hotel of the T Tauri Film Festival, is offering a special festival rate for rooms booked by July 12, 2009, subject to availability (a 27% discount on the regular room rate). Comfort Suites is within two miles of all workshop venues and equipped with an indoor pool, hot tub, and exercise room; a continental breakfast buffet is included in the room rate. For room reservations, call 870-698-1900 and ask for the T Tauri Film Festival rate.
The T Tauri Film Festival and Movie Camp is the youth division of Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc., a 501(c) (3) educational non-profit corporation founded in 2001. T Tauri Movie Camp sponsors include First Community Bank of Batesville, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Independence County Recreation Fund, CanonUSA, the Field Shop, UACCB, and Lyon College. For information, email ttauri@wildblue.net or call 870-251-1189.
Walgreens 1 year Anniversary Celebration
04-May-10 14:35
Saturday, May 8th 2010 Free Hot Dogs, Pepsi, & Chips 11am-1pm Face Painting & Door Prizes such as a Bicycle, Cosmetic Items, & As Seen On TV Products! Pick Up Mom a Great Mother's Day Gift! Kids Under 12 Make FREE Mother's Day Cards & Hand Prints. Mothers Can Enter For a Chance to Win a Hallmark Gift Basket! Also Get a FREE 8x10 When You Come In & Take a Picture With Your Mom! There will be a Pet Adoption from 10am-12pm Employee Discounts Offered to All Chamber Members (Please Print Out This Flyer & Show Walgreen's Associate at Cosmetics Checkout) Drinks, Chips, and HotDogs Provided by Pepsi,Frito Lay,& Kallsnick Inc.
Goggles and Glasses Opens Collection Center for Plastic Peanuts
28-Apr-10 09:40
Batesville, Arkansas-GogglesandGlasses.com, a local Internet retailer of quality sunglasses and a wide assortment of eyewear is now a Peanut Hotline collection center for plastic packaging loose fill peanuts.
GogglesandGlasses is located at 480 South Central Avenue and will accept clean plastic peanuts from local residents and retailers and reuse them in their outgoing packages. Gary Richardson, owner and manager of G&G says, “Plastic peanuts provide excellent protection for our shipments and can be reused many times. By joining the Hotline, we are providing our neighbors a convenient way to reuse plastic peanuts and adding to our effort to be a “green retailer” by recycling and helping others in the Batesville area to do so”.
The Peanut Hotline, founded July of 1991, is the Plastic Loose Fill council’s nationwide program for reusing packing peanuts. The Hotline, 800-828-2214 and loosefillpackaging.com, is a 24-hour, toll-free directory service for consumers to learn which local businesses accept plastic peanuts for reuse. Most sites are typically small packaging or gift shops. They welcome the free packaging material, the customer referrals, and the chance to reduce waste and help the environment.
Most people who use the Hotline learn about it with a mail-order purchase. Over 200 catalog companies use package inserts printed with Peanut Hotline information. Nationwide, Hotline collection centers report that the Hotline is popular in their communities because residents appreciate how reuse contributes to environmental savings.
The Plastic Loose Fill Council, a national trade association headquartered in Oakland, Calif. maintains the Peanut Hotline website, which provides information on the use of plastic loose fill or packing peanuts.
Healthy Batesville Community Meeting FREE refreshments!
13-Apr-10 11:45
Please join us for the 1st Healthy Batesville Community Meeting!
Everyone is invited! FREE refreshments will be served!
WHERE:City Hall
WHEN: April 15, 2010
TIME: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Batesville Regional Airport: Moving Our Community Forward
31-Mar-10 11:39
InBox Impact: Professional E-Mail Marketing for Small Businesses
11-Feb-10 16:26
Email marketing doesn't cost much. It doesn't take a lot of time. And...it is a perfect fit for small business marketing campaigns that will GET RESULTS!DATE: Tuesday, February 16th
($20 for UACCB Faculty/Staff/Students)
Free Workshop: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE THREE SECOND RULE
16-Nov-09 13:52
This workshop session is a must attend for anyone who is a supervisor, manager, business owner or HR professional in a company with 15 or more employees.
Start the New Year off right by attending this “Never Boring” Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Sexual Harassment session and you are guaranteed to learn something new about your EEO obligations, specifically sexual harassment. Sexual Harassment complaints are on the rise across the US. Employers are consistently found guilty in the courts when managers and employees who act inappropriately have not been trained adequately. Don’t wait for that special invitation to court by the feds before you learn your legal obligations. Employers paid out $47.4M in 2008 to remedy sexual harassment discrimination filed through the EEOC.
The Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce is offering a FREE nationally acclaimed training workshop that will help you better understand obligations under EEO laws of discrimination and harassment. You may be surprised at what you do not know.
This “NEVER BORING” workshop is not a typical EEO workshop. Carol Baker Dawson is a national trainer and consultant in EEO, Diversity, and Affirmative Action. Expect the workshop to be fast paced, interactive, and informative…a great way to kick off the NEW YEAR 2010.
Carol Baker Dawson, President of EEO GUIDANCE, Inc., provides quality consulting and nationally recognized “NEVER BORING” training services in the field of Equal Opportunity–Affirmative Action/Employment–Diversity–Harassment (Title VII), along with creating Affirmative Action Programs. Her humorous, interactive, and fast paced workshops focus on teaching RESPECT. She has held government enforcement positions as Area Director for the Department of Labor/Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), Senior Compliance Officer (U.S. Labor), and EEO Manager for U.S. Commerce/Census/NPC. Carol was certified as a national trainer for new OFCCP Compliance Officers and has been training nationally for over 25 years. She has been honored with the Louisville Key to the City, Labor’s Distinguished Career Service Award, the 2009 Clark County Woman Philanthropist Award (Community Foundation), and in 2008, the National Society of Newspaper Columnist Will Rogers Humanitarian Award for her “Extra Miler” column. Carol also writes equality and diversity related columns for various publications, including Business First.
Carol has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and has been a skilled lead mediator since 1989. She earned a Diversity Professional Certification from Cornell University, CCDP (Cornell Certified Diversity Professional/Advanced Practitioner) in 2008.
Carol’s Email: Cdawson@eeoguidance.com Web address: www.eeoguidance.com Telephone: 812-284-2993
January 8th, 2010 @ First Community Bank from 1-3 p.m.
Space is limited. Please call Crystal Johnson (870) 793-2378 to register. Free for Chamber Members in good standing.
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